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UNDESIRABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does undesirability mean?
• UNDESIRABILITY (noun)
The noun UNDESIRABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the quality possessed by something that should be avoided
Familiarity information: UNDESIRABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality possessed by something that should be avoided
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("undesirability" is a kind of...):
bad; badness (that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency)
Antonym:
desirability (the quality of being worthy of desiring)
Derivation:
undesirable (not wanted)
undesirable (not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse))
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